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Florian Pritz

21 Aug 2011 21 Aug '11

3:48 p.m.

Hi, It's been over 7 years since the last upstream update and gamin provides nearly all the functions without requiring a daemon and it uses inotify. As for NFS support, gamin monitors local events so it won't affect users having the home on NFS [1]. I think we shouldn't support dead software and replace fam with gamin. [1] http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/differences.html -- Florian Pritz

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Tom Gundersen

21 Aug 21 Aug

4:55 p.m.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Florian Pritz wrote:

I think we shouldn't support dead software

As discussed on IRC: +1 from me. -t

Andrea Scarpino

5:02 p.m.

On 21 August 2011 18:55, Tom Gundersen wrote:

As discussed on IRC: +1 from me. I'm in favour of removing fam, but please stop discussing decisions on IRC. I cannot join our dev channel every day and it doesn't have a log file accessible through the website neither and I'd like to know the benefits/disadvantages of fam, or everything else, removal.

Anyway Jan discussed this a couple of months ago here[1] [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2011-July/020963.html -- Andrea

Tom Gundersen

5:40 p.m.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote:

On 21 August 2011 18:55, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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As discussed on IRC: +1 from me. I'm in favour of removing fam, but please stop discussing decisions on IRC. I cannot join our dev channel every day and it doesn't have a log file accessible through the website neither and I'd like to know the benefits/disadvantages of fam, or everything else, removal.

In this case, Florian summarized the discussion in his email. -t

Jan de Groot

4:57 p.m.

On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 17:48 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote:

Hi,

It's been over 7 years since the last upstream update and gamin provides nearly all the functions without requiring a daemon and it uses inotify.

As for NFS support, gamin monitors local events so it won't affect users having the home on NFS [1].

I think we shouldn't support dead software and replace fam with gamin.

My thoughts on this subject: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2011-July/020963.html I'd say: drop where possible when native inotify exists, otherwise replace with gamin.

Florian Pritz

23 Aug 23 Aug

2:21 p.m.

On 21.08.2011 17:48, Florian Pritz wrote:

Hi,

It's been over 7 years since the last upstream update and gamin provides nearly all the functions without requiring a daemon and it uses inotify.

As for NFS support, gamin monitors local events so it won't affect users having the home on NFS [1].

I think we shouldn't support dead software and replace fam with gamin.

[1] http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/differences.html

I create https://www.archlinux.org/todo/95/ -- Florian Pritz

Andrea Scarpino

1 Sep 1 Sep

9:30 a.m.

On 23 August 2011 16:21, Florian Pritz wrote:

I create https://www.archlinux.org/todo/95/ I just moved fam to AUR.

-- Andrea

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